The Syndicate

This is very heartbreaking news and I’d like to honour TH, at least as much as short words and flickers of memory can accomplish this.

Turnip Head, together with Marmot and Roxy, was part of the mafia team in Mongoose’s Film Directors with which I debuted and earned my first win on this website. I will forever cherish that experience, above all how we bonded behind the scenes and tried to make it work (especially during a 4-5am endgame when TH carried us to the win, given how I accidentally fell asleep, heh).

Soon after we also played Death Note together and I remember TH being the only player who picked up on my game goodness being a total facade and sussed me actively. It was an exemplary display of case-making gamesmanship and heat-bringing tension.

Also from Death Note I remember nominating a reaction post of theirs for the Funniest Quote of that year - it was after a resurrection - something that can easily pass as a commonplace meme, but for me somehow highlighted their penchant for well-timed humour and light-hearted interaction. Coming from TH, such things were effortless.

Beside such personal flashbacks, TH was of course a valued admin, ambassador and friend of this community. Their time spent on and off this group didn’t coincide with my own, which means that, regretfully, we didn’t interact more in recent years. To the extent we did, however, I always admired TH most amiably and friendly.

This is too premature of a loss and, again, none of these words can honour properly. I only hope they will live long in the memory of this group as a person and as a player committed to the game, but also whimsical and inspired enough to play on their own terms - best combo there can be. May them turnips grow peacefully in a better place.